Design of the second generation microwave humidity sounder (MWHS-II) for Chinese meteorological satellite FY-3

Author

Zhang Shengwei ; Li Jing ; Wang Zhenzhan ; Wang Hongjian ; Sun Maohua ; Jiang Jingshan ; He Jieying

fYear

2012

fDate

22-27 July 2012

Firstpage

4672

Lastpage

4675

Abstract

Design and Technical specification parameters of MWHS-II (MicroWaves Humidity Sounder) of FY-3 satellite are presented, which include much improvements compared to MWHS onboard FY-3A/B satellite launched in 2008 and 2010. Especially MWHS-II adds 8 channels at 118.75GHz to sound temperature information for the first time internationally. The simulation results show that MWHS-II will play an important role in the meteorological sounding system for measuring global atmospheric temperature and water vapour profiles.

Keywords

artificial satellites; atmospheric humidity; atmospheric temperature; humidity measurement; meteorological instruments; microwave measurement; radiometry; temperature measurement; FY-3 Chinese meteorological satellite; MWHS-II; frequency 118.75 GHz; global atmospheric temperature measurement; meteorological sounding system; second generation microwave humidity sounder; sound temperature information; technical specification parameters; water vapour profile; Atmospheric measurements; Calibration; Humidity; Microwave radiometry; Satellite broadcasting; Satellites; Temperature measurement; FY-3A/B satellite; MWHS-II; temperature; water vapour;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1160-1

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350423

Filename

6350423